Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lackenavorna, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lackenavorna
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.80805, -8.07265
- SMR number
- TN027-055----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on the steep NW-facing slope of a hill, in pasture. A circular area (diam. 32.5m N-S; 30.5m E-W) defined by a bank (Wth 6.3m; int. H 2.83m; ext. H 1.24m), a fosse (Wth 3.9m; D 0.93m), a berm (Wth 7.1m), an outer bank (Wth 3.7m; int. H 1.52m; ext. H 1.3m) and an external fosse (Wth 7m; D 1.71m). Modern interference includes a trackway through the internal SE quadrant on a NE-SW axis, the inner bank forming the SE side of the track. The interior slopes gradually to the NW. In the upslope SE quadrant the outer bank appears to have slipped internally forming a 'berm' between the outer bank and a narrow fosse outside the inner bank. At W only one bank (Wth 2.3m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 7.13m) survives. The external fosse is most clearly evident in the SE quadrant. Possible original entrance at NE.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.